Mary emily poupard



(Nd Model.)

M. E. POUPARD. SBGMENTAL HORSESHOE.

Patented Sept. 18, 18941 Fl Gr. 3

UNITED STATES- PATENT Fries.

MARY EMILY POUPARD, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE MAIL HORSE SHOESYNDICATE, (FOREIGN PATENTS,) LIMITED, OF SAME PLACE.

SEGMENTAL HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,051, datedSeptember 18, 1894. Application filed Januaryll, 1894, Serial No.496,539. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY EMILY POUPARD, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, residing atLondon, England, have invented anImprovement in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of shoes for horses, or otherhoofed animals, in unattached segments; and consists in wedge keys, orplugs, which interlock the varlous segments one to another, as regardslateral or ed gewise slipping, hold them up to the hoof, and cause thesegments to abut endwise upon one another through the medium of theinterlocking keys or plugs, but which at the same time admit of thesegments pivoting upon the key or plug between the segments, to enablethe segments to be adapted to vanous sizes and contours of boots, toreadily yield, when in use, to the expansion and contraction of thehoof, and also to enable one part to be readily removed and replacedwithoutdisturbance of the remainder.

The shoe maybe divided into three or any larger number of sections,which thus will enable them to be combined to form a shoe to suitvarious sizes and shapes of hoofs.

Figures 1 and 2 show a plan of the under tread, and a side elevation,respectively, of a segmental shoe in three pieces, with my improvedplug-keys. Figs. 3 and 4 show a plan of the under tread and asideelevation respectively of a segmental shoe in five pieces with myimproved plug-keys. Fig. 5 is a sectlonal detail of a plug-key detached,with a nail-hole pierced therethrough. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail of amodified plug-key with a crater-like ridge thereon, to embed into theunder face of the hoof. Fig. 7 is a modified form of plug.

A is the shoe, which may be divided into any number of segments; theends of the segments adjoining being each provided with a recess,preferably of semi-circular section, and of conical shape, into which anupwardly taporing or shouldered plugB is inserted from below, and heldin position by a nail 0 through the center of the plug, driven into thehoof, and clinched over outside the hoof, or by a screw driven into thehoof; orthe upper point of the plug may be screw-threaded for inser-.tion into the hoof. The sizes of the plug and respective recesses are soproportioned that when the plug fills the recesses the ends of theshoulders of the segments do not abut, allowing pivotal play of thesegments about the plug B. The shape of the plug B may be modified, asshown in Fig. 7, to fit recesses with stepped shoulders for theshoulders D D of the plug.

To further prevent lateral slip of the shoe on the hoof, the upper endof the plug B may terminate in a crater-like ridge E which may be easilydriven into the body of the hoof; thus embracing a portion of the hoofin the hollow of the crater, and preventing any lateral movement of thepivotal plug, so as to practically free the attaching nail or screw fromlateral strain. The usual nails F may be used to further secure thesegments to the hoof, or additional plugs B may be driven through holespierced in the shoe, and provided with crater-like upper ends at otherparts of the segments than their abutting ends, as at the ends of thetail-pieces in Fig. 1, to further secure the shoe, and prevent lateralslip.

I do not claim herein the within-described plugs, Fig. 6, provided withcrater-like ridges E, except as combined with sections pivoted on saidplugs as well as attached thereby in the manner illustrated at B inFigs. 1 and 3, and hereinbefore set forth. Such plugs and the,craterdike ridges which distinguish them are set forth and claimed inanother specification forming part of my application for United Statespatent filed January 11, 1894, Serial No. 496,538, in favor of whichthey are hereby disclaimed except as combined with sections pivotedthereon as above.

Having now particularly described and acertained the nature of this saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatWhat I claim is- 1. The combination with a segmental shoe, for horses orother hoofed animals, of attaching plugs inserted in recesses betweenthe adjoining ends of the segments, and adapted by their conical orshouldered form to keep up the segments to the 11001", and by theircircular form to admit of pivotal movement of the segments about them.

2. In a segmental shoe for horses or other hoofed animals, thecombination with sections having recessed ends, of a pivotal attachingplug, inserted in the end recesses of the segments, and having acrater-like ridge at its upper end which is embedded in the to hoof anda hole which receives a nail or screw extending upwardly through saidplug and surrounded by said ridge, substantially as hereinbeforespecified.

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of I 5 two subscribing witnesses.

MARY EMILY POUPARD. Witnesses:

CHARLES JAMES JUTsoN, FREDERICK ABRAHAM POUPARD.

